Chaves Rallies to 14th at Sonoma; Clinches Sunoco Rookie of the Year Title After an emotionally challenging week for the Indycar community, it was time to conclude the 2015 season at the GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma. The double points weekend put both the overall driver’s and Sunoco Rookie of the Year championships in play, the latter […]
Chaves Fights for Win Leads 31 Laps at ABC Supply 500 So close, yet so far… Gabby Chaves had the breakout performance he and the Bowers & Wilkins team have been expecting by leading a large part of the ABC Supply 500 at Pocono Raceway.The race didn’t start off easily for the #98 team. The first two stints […]
Sandell Takes 2nd in DC Final Dyne 8th in Final; Davis 10th in Lites Final After suffering flat tires both in qualifying and the first heat race, Patrik Sandell and the Kobalt Tools team rebounded to take his third podium of the year in the Red Bull Global Rallycross Final. Sandell won the semi-final and […]
Cuttwood E-Cig Liquids Becomes Primary Sponsor of Austin Dyne’s #14 BHR Ford Fiesta CASTROL GTX Magnatec Remains as Associate Sponsor Cuttwood, aka “The Sauce Boss”, has joined Bryan Herta Rallysport as primary sponsor of the #14 Ford Fiesta Supercar driven by Austin Dyne for the remainder of the 2015 Red Bull Global Rallycross season. The new […]
Chaves & BHA Advance to 12th Place Finish Good Strategy Moves #98 Team up from 21st Lexington, OH –After starting 21st, the Bowers & Wilkins team used a lap four yellow to get off the primary “Black” (harder/slower) tires and move off strategy of the leaders.This strategy paid dividends as the race unfolded. A lucky late yellow after Chaves […]
Luck Changes & Sandell Wins at Detroit on Sunday Dyne and Davis both finish 6th in Sunday Finals FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Detroit, MI –After dominating almost every heat and semi-feature since Daytona, Patrik Sandell and the Bryan Herta Rallysport Kobalt Tools Ford Fiesta team finally changed their luck in the feature events and stood upon the top step of […]
Chaves 16th After Hard Fought Iowa Race Fighting Handling, BHA Soldiers Home to Finish Newton, IA –After struggling to find grip in the Iowa heat, Gabby Chaves and the Bowers & Wilkins #98 survived 300 hard fought laps to finish 16th. The BHA team fought handling issues all night, and made up a number spots through attrition […]
Chaves Finishes 11th at Milwaukee Mile Ultra Competitive Race Proves Tough to Pass Milwaukee, WI –The condensed Sunday schedule for the ABC Supply 250 at the Milwaukee Mile was a race fans dream! Practice qualifying and the 250 mile race were all contested today under perfect weather. Gabby Chaves and the BHA team were consistently […]
Chaves Excited for 1st Short Oval of 2015 250 Laps on Milwaukee Mile is a Historical Challenge FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Indianapolis –Auto racing first occurred on the Milwaukee Mile in 1903, six years before the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was built. Then it was dirt. The mile was paved in 1954, and Indycars have competed there almost continuously since. The […]
Chaves Soldiers Home to 15th in Toronto Tricky Weather Proves Difficult to Perfect Setup Gabby Chaves and the BHA team worked hard all weekend in trying wet, semi-wet, and dry conditions to find the grip and balance that would allow Gabby to continue his recent run of top-ten results. Weather cancelled one of only three […]
Chaves Finishes 10th in Firestone 600 Tire Preservation Still Key to Winning in Texas Dallas, TX –After last night’s final practice, Gabby Chaves said he wished that was the race. The BHA team was third fastest, and Chaves was passing cars like he was driving in a video game. Twenty-four hours later, the Bowers & Wilkins car was […]
Chaves 9th in Second Wet “Dual in Detroit” after placing 18th in First Dual The weather presented as much of a challenge as the track in race one of the “Chevrolet Dual in Detroit Presented by Quicken Loans”. The conditions all weekend were less than favorable for racing with both Saturday’s and Sunday’s races requiring […]
Chaves 16th & Rookie of the Year at Indy May 24th’s Indianapolis 500 is being called one of the best all-around 500’s in the event’s 99 year history. There were over 600 position changes at the start finish lines, and Gabby Chaves likely accounted for a couple dozen of those.Chaves moved up to as high […]